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West Mains
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3879
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3879 (3879)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whittingehame
- National Grid reference
- NT 5764 7193
- Latitude
- 55.93865
- Longitude
- -2.67958
- Altitude
- 137 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5995
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1008
- National record
- record NT 57 SE 18; monument 56408
- Wikidata
- Q31096714
Sources